Just ended — American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity, at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, which spanned the 1890s, with sporty Gibson girls taking style cues from Europe, through the 1930s, with screen sirens emerging as the western emblem of beauty.
According to Andrew Bolton, who curated the Metropolitan’s show with selections from the Brooklyn Museum’s costume collection, the exhibition represented more than a sartorial revolution from corsets to kimonos. As NPR summed it up in an interview with Bolton that aired last week, it depicted an evolution in attitude. “By 1940, she (the American woman) had come to represent something that would intrigue the world from then on — a physically and sexually liberated, confident human being.”
American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity, May 5–August 15, 2010
Images from the American Woman installation on flicker
NPR: The Feminine Mystique, Expressed in Silks and Satins
High Style: Masterworks from the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, by Jan Reeder
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